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vagrant

/vey-gruhnt/US // ˈveɪ grənt //UK // (ˈveɪɡrənt) //

流浪者,流浪汉,无业游民,游荡者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond; tramp.
    • : Law. an idle person without visible means of support, as a tramp or beggar.
    • : a person who wanders from place to place; wanderer; rover.
    • : wandering idly without a permanent home or employment; living in vagabondage: vagrant beggars.
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagrant: the vagrant life.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : wandering or roaming from place to place; nomadic.
    • : straggling in growth.
    • : not fixed or settled, especially in course; moving hither and thither: a vagrant leaf blown by the wind.

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Examples

  • I’d gotten wind via the eBird Rare Bird Alert that a vagrant woodcock had been spotted along the Rio Grande near Albuquerque, New Mexico, just 15 minutes from my house.

  • In an interview, Liang said, “Air should be the most valueless commodity, free to breathe for any vagrant or beggar.”

  • Yet the word vagrant is a misnomer in this city, where economy has reached a finesse that is marvelous.

  • For the first time Bud had a vagrant suspicion that Foster had not told quite all there was to tell about this trip.

  • Orders were issued to the boards of management of the newly created vagrant districts, telling them that they need not meet.

  • Yet even for the professional vagrant the promiscuous London casual ward of 1864 was not to be extended.

  • Says one of the characters, referring to the importunities of a tipsy vagrant, “Give him half-a-crown!”